CME Insider's Blog Posts

CME announces a considerable expansion of its management team with the hire of Don Boone as Director of National Contracts.

CME has teamed up with Enthermics Medical Systems to provide you with not only the best patient warming products but also the most advanced and valuable technology available. With the help of Enthermics, CME is working not only to exceed your expectations but also to provide the best products, service, and delivery.

CME has partnered with Champion to provide you with quality medical seating for all of your healthcare needs. As Champion works hard to provide products that are designed for patient comfort, ease of staff use, valuable return-on-investment and quality service, it was only natural that CME would join with them to not only exceed your expectations, but also provide the best products, service and delivery.

Mid Central Medical has worked with CME for many years to deliver quality stainless steel equipment to the operating rooms and surgery centers across America. With quick reply times on quotes and other customer requests coupled with a less than 24-hour ship program, looking for products from Mid Central Medical is a great choice for your O.R. equipment needs.

As debate over how to view, and fund, healthcare through governmental reform progresses, it creates more budgetary pressures on healthcare facilities trying to manage an erratic stream of payments from disparate sources. However, things evolve, payment pressures will not abate, which is why having the supply chain involved at the decision-making level makes fiscal sense.

The supply chain represents 40 to 45 percent of hospital or healthcare system operating expense, second only to labor costs. This mix is expected to keep shifting, with the supply chain potentially overtaking labor costs within the next 5 years. Creating successful supply chain strategies requires a top-down approach with knowledgeable stakeholders involved at the highest levels.

As independent, outpatient medical practices have become part of integrated health systems, networks have struggled to establish standardized processes. This is a problem. Simply put, disconnected processes and devices at the point of care can have a big impact on costs and outcomes.

Manual vitals acquisition alone produces wasted time that can cost up to $1,600 per year per medical assistant. For health systems with hundreds of medical assistants, those costs add up—and the impact on clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction can be even greater.

Studies have also shown that manual data transcription produces a 6.5 percent rate of error on average. Assuming a caregiver sees 20 patients a day, that’s eight errors just capturing vitals.

In the modern healthcare environment, both IDNs and hospital systems strive for a few things in particular: improved quality of care; outstanding patient satisfaction, growing capacity meant to provide better integrated healthcare, and cutting costs.

Because of this, it is likely that healthcare facility expansions or new construction are likely an option for you, whether now or in the near future—which means forward thinking and planning leads will be needed.

Electro-Medical Devices are universal in hospitals and are maintained by the biomedical department. One of the principal duties for those with equipment oversight is to assure the safety of the many devices for which they are responsible. However, as the standards for the design of this equipment are continually evolving, it is important to stay up-to-date with the standards and how to address them. 

As a business that continually strives to be a comprehensive resource for the healthcare community, specifically those involved with the supply chain and equipment, CME wants to offer insight into electrical safety and offer solutions to electrical safety issues for our customers.

CME has partnered with Health o Meter to provide clients with the absolute best in technology and product ability. When it comes to healthcare equipment, they serve in both the interests of the patient and the professional; there are few who can provide better service and ability than our combination.